From the New York Times, I'm Michael Bavaro. This is a Daily.

On Tuesday afternoon, the U.S. government recommended that almost every American begin

taking a new annual vaccine for COVID, a milestone in the nation's three-year-long battle

against the virus.

I spoke with my colleague, approval Monday, about why the era of booster shots is now over,

and how exactly we're supposed to navigate this latest uptick in infections in what, to

many, feels like a post-COVID world.

It's Wednesday, September 13th.

Approval, we're talking to you just about an hour after the Centers for Disease Control

and Prevention.

This is something they don't do all that much of these days, which is to publicly weigh

in on COVID all these many months after telling us that COVID is no longer a national emergency.

So tell us exactly what the CDC just did.

What they did today is they've sort of reframed how we think about the coronavirus vaccine.

We used to have all these boosters and doses to keep track of, and they recommended a single

shot that everyone should get.

The idea is that you're going to continue to get COVID vaccines, but you should really

think about this like the flu vaccine.

You're going to get one dose every fall, and that's going to be for everybody, not this

many doses for this group, and that many doses for the other group, and this very confusing

my launch they had before.

It was a confusing homage.

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